MY Plans Have Been Cancelled

I’m a woman, and like most, I have my whole future planned out in my head and on a Pinterest board… or so I think.

Living in this sweet little town of Abilene, if even five people I know are getting married, it feels like the whole city is, and I panic thinking I must be behind! I’m guilty of becoming frustrated with myself when my own personal time line begins to fall apart, but I was reminded with a slap in the face this week that the timeline I might have had my freshman year of high school isn’t even partially in existence anymore… mostly because it never was. This “timeline” I stuck in my head was never mine to begin with, but God’s. He has been in control from the day I came in to existence and will be in control until I meet him again.

Feeling out of control is one of the worst feelings I can think of, especially when it FEELS like everyone else is totally IN control. (But as my best friend has said, we are all just really good at faking it.) I encourage you, just as I’ve had to encourage myself, to remember that every person’s “timeline” is different. We may not always understand why He has cancelled our plans, but as 2 Peter 3:8 says, “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” We can’t always comprehend the way God has laid out our life… and that is a-ok.

Every cancelation, advancement, and delay I have ever faced has simply forced upon me an opportunity for something different… something in HIS plan… and that is something to praise God for.